Serving Our Seniors Magazine: April - June 2024

Serving Our Seniors REPORT TO THE COMMUNITY 3,120 The number of calls to Serving Our Seniors asking for help. 1,718 Individual older adults who called for help with a question/problem/concern. 252 New older adults calling Serving Our Seniors for the first time. 7,933 The number of rural home delivered meals funded by Serving Our Seniors. 142 Older adults used weekday transportation funded by Serving Our Seniors. 1,555 1-way trips were taken by older adults who paid a bus fare of $1.50. 27 Older adults used weekday transportation at a reduced bus fare of .50 per ride. 527 1-way trips provided to the 27 people for 50¢ reduced bus fare. 39 Older adults used out of town transportation to get to health care appointments. 67 Trips were driven to take the 33 older adults to their health care appointments. 2 Older adults received a gas voucher to afford travel out of town to their health care appointments, when we were short on volunteer drivers. 4 Older adults took 5 trips using our wheelchair transportation for out of town health care appointments. Affordable Transportation 7 The number of small home repairs. 3 New ramps installed. 124 The number of ramps in service throughout Erie County 661 Medicare counseling sessions (group and individual) Services to Support Independence Nutrition October – December 2023 From the Director The purpose of this magazine is to create a positive attitude toward aging and inform our readers of what we are doing to help YOU age well in Erie County. Each page is filled with information you can use. Our cover story is about a trip we want you to take down memory lane by attending our spring show/ fund-raiser, American Bandstand . Tim Parkison, is volunteering his time and talent impersonating Dick Clark, for our show. Tim is a Financial Advisor at Stifel. You may know him best when he was a DJ for K-96 radio. Read all about the upcoming show on pages 10 -12. If that isn’t enough reminiscing for you, be sure to read page 13 – Relive The Beatles in Cleveland . You will be inspired by two stories of older women Louise (pg 13) and Bev (pg 22) who won’t let their age be an excuse. There are other stories that cover what you ought to know for your age (pg 6) and help for older drivers to keep your keys longer (pg 21). We have had some success attracting new advertisers to the magazine, with this issue. We are back up to 24 pages! If you enjoy receiving the magazine, would you help us by giving one or two advertisers a call? Let them know you saw their ad in Serving Our Seniors Magazine and thank them for supporting this publication. Enjoy the spring weather and I hope to see you soon! Stay well, Sue Daugherty 3